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"FacebookPinterest\n\nYou&amp;amp;#x2019;ll break a sweat listening to new album by The Black Keys. You won&amp;amp;#x2019;t be as sweaty as, say, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, probably, in the video for their latest track, &amp;amp;#x201C;Fever.&amp;amp;#x201D; (The one where the not-exactly-religious guys play fanatical preachers to fanatical crowds of pre-recorded &amp;amp;#x2018;80s-era church-goers.) But their new album Turn Blue, which drops tomorrow, is full of enough guitar shredding, thumping bass, and psychedelic melodies to make you embarrass yourself on a dancefloor. We rang up the video&amp;amp;#x2019;s director Theo Wenner to find out why they&amp;amp;#x2019;re so damn damp.\n\n\n\n\n\nGQ: Talk us through the concept behind the &amp;amp;#x201C;Fever&amp;amp;#x201D; video.\n\n Theo Wenner: The concept behind the music video is really simple: ambiguous religious public access TV show. It just sort of came to me--I don&amp;amp;#x2019;t know, maybe, I watched a lot of those shows when I was in boarding school, just because there was nothing on television and they were constantly just always on. It really stuck with me, and, aesthetically, I&amp;amp;#x2019;m really drawn to the way those shows always looked.\n\nAnd how did that fit in with the track itself?\n\n When those sorts of preachers do those shows, and those sermons, it kind of has that up-and-down, oscillating energy where it can be really sort of calm and then, all of a sudden, they become very emphatic and excitable. I think the song really has that changing of tempo and the up-and-downs.\n\nThis isn&amp;amp;#x2019;t your first time working with The Black Keys.\n\n And then also there&amp;amp;#x2019;s a second video coming out, actually, that I directed as well. They&amp;amp;#x2019;re interconnected--they both can be watched as their own video, but there is a connection between the two. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s for &amp;amp;#x201C;Weight of Love,&amp;amp;#x201D; the first song on the album. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s much more atmospheric and the pacing of the next video corresponds to the pacing of the song.\n\nSo, what&amp;amp;#x2019;s it like working with the duo behind the camera?\n\n Both of them are great actors and have a lot of character in their faces. I showed my friend the video--she didn&amp;amp;#x2019;t really know that much about The Black Keys--and she said, &amp;amp;#x201C;That&amp;amp;#x2019;s a great video, but where are The Black Keys?&amp;amp;#x201D; So I think they&amp;amp;#x2019;re rather convincing, both of them.\n\nAnd, finally: why are they so gloriously sweaty?\n\n It goes with the territory--any good preacher should be sweating."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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